Tag: Comedy
Bill & Ted Face the Music Transports Gen X Back to Memorable Laughs
Nostalgia has powered the American box office for the better part of a decade with millennials and Gen Xers clamoring for remakes and reboots that call back to memories of their childhoods. For some moviegoers (including me, full…
Read More »Made in Italy, Made Before
Grief can be a funny thing. Often times, those who carry it can appear normal on the outside, going about life as if nothing’s wrong. But just beneath the surface, the inability to move past trauma can have…
Read More »What Doesn’t Kill Us Reminds Us of the Power of Satire
Often times, absurdity best underscores a point. Satire has long played an integral part in helping us to analyze the world around us and make sense of the issues that plague our society. One such film uses America’s…
Read More »Beanie Feldstein and Director Coky Giedroyc Power How to Build a Girl Past Typical Coming of Age Fare
“How do I get there from here?” As Hollywood pushes toward making gains with onscreen diversity, it seems we’ve been inundated with yearly tales of lower to middle class white teenage girls coming of age. Creeping toward market…
Read More »Uncorked Tells an Authentic Tale of Black Dreamers
They say that dreamers inherit the Earth. That their visionary spirits determine all of our futures and creates worlds for us that we didn’t know were possible. But the journey to that glorious tomorrow is often paved through…
Read More »The Photograph of Traumatic Legacy
Your parents are the first teachers you ever have in life. They teach you how to walk, how to speak, and a host of other basic aspects of human existence that you carry with you for the duration…
Read More »Birds of Prey Uses Visual Flair and Great Performance to Deliver a Fun Time at the Movies
Breaking up is hard to do. After leaving a long-term relationship, forging a new identity separate and apart from a former partner can be daunting and tough to manage. For women, social constructs that often say her worth…
Read More »The Wave Provides a Kaleidoscopic View of Karmic Balance
“What goes around comes around.” “Karma’s a bitch.” Just a couple of quotes that people bandy about in the hopes of motivating people to treat one another with more kindness and consideration. But is there such a thing…
Read More »Ana is a Charming, Funny, and Socially Relevant Surprise
What are the ties that bind? What is it that bonds people together, creating connections that will last a lifetime? Our lives intertwine for various reasons and often times, we find certain people right when we most need…
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Don’t Wake Me, I’m Dreamin’: The High Note Sings a Song of Aspirations
Clawing one’s way toward a dream will involve overcoming many obstacles along the way. These impediments may be further complicated by some of the challenges often thrown at people due to their sex, race, gender, socioeconomic status, or…
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